Database of alchemical Iconography

37 Andreas LIBAVIUS.
D.O.M.A. Alchymia, recognita, emendata, et aucta, tum dogmatibus et experimentis nonnullis; tum commentario medico physico chymico, qui exornatus est variis instrumentorum chymicorum picturis; partim aliunde translatis, partim plane novis: In gratiam eorum, qui arcanorum naturalium cupidi, ea absque; involucris elementorum & �nigmaticarum sordium, intueri gaudent. Pr�missa defensione artis: opposita censur� Parisian�.
2� Francofurti: excudebat Joannes Saurius, impensis P. Kopffii 1506 [for 1606]

[Contains:-
2. D.O.M.A. Commentariorum Alchymi�... Continens explicationem operationum chymicarum priore artis libro comprehensarum, adiectis fornacum et aliorum vasorum figuris, partim ex impressis antehac autoribus, partim aliunde acceptis, & ex latibulis officinarum productis. Pr�missa est Defensio Alchemi� et refutatio obiectionum ex censura schol� Parisiensis, qu� licet videri nolit hanc Alchemiam, sed Quercetani damnasse, nimis tamen frigide de arte sentit...
3. Pars secunda, continens tractatus quosdam singulares ad illustrationem eorum potissimum, qu� libro Alchemiae secundo habentur difficiliora laboriosioraque...]


2 illustrations - 1 symbolic - 1 equipment

1. Engraved title page. 263x181mm. Architectural frame with printed title. This was later re-used in Libavius, 'Syntagmatis Arcanorum chymicorum', 1613.

2. p3 Woodcut. 32x12mm. Flask with two spherical chambers in the neck.